Cybernetics (disambiguation)
From Includipedia, the inclusionist encyclopedia
Cybernetics may refer to more than one thing:
- Cybernetics is a theory of the communication and control based on regulatory feedback. This is the original definition of the term.
- In popular culture, the study of cyborgs and robotic implants and prosthetics.
- Sometimes used as a synonym for robotics.
- Cybernetics is also a Swedish customer relationship management company, based in Solna, Stockholm. It was founded in 1975 and provides software and consulting services.
- Second-order cybernetics is also the study of Cybernetics but the observer is seen as a participating part of the system in focus.
- New Cybernetics is also the study of First-order Cybernetics and Second-order cybernetics. It is a term due to Pask who introduced the forces of interaction in furtherance of the study of Self-organization, Learning and Evolution seen as properties of all Matter.
